{"id":8791,"date":"2019-06-19T19:13:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T02:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/?p=8791"},"modified":"2019-06-19T19:13:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T02:13:04","slug":"surprising-dad-for-99th-birthday-with-55-ford-he-never-thought-would-run-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/2019\/06\/19\/surprising-dad-for-99th-birthday-with-55-ford-he-never-thought-would-run-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprising Dad for 99th birthday with &#8217;55 Ford he never thought would run again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Every now and then, you run across a story that inspires you, and this is one in my book.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It was sent to me by one of my Vietnam brothers and is worth watching. The video caption states:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><strong>&#8220;Walt West&#8217;s wish was to drive the &#8217;55 Ford he bought brand new and and parked in a shed for 47 years.. His baby boomer &#8216;kids&#8217; spent 3 months getting the &#8217;55 fixed for one last drive.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>I hope you enjoy the video! &#8211; <em>Roger<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" style=\"width:560px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_ghAS1MZ_eV8\"><div id=\"lyte_ghAS1MZ_eV8\" data-src=\"\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/ghAS1MZ_eV8\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ghAS1MZ_eV8\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/ghAS1MZ_eV8\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"560\" height=\"295\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:560px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then, you run across a story that inspires you, and this is one in my book. It was sent to me by one of my Vietnam brothers and is worth watching. The video caption states: &#8220;Walt West&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/2019\/06\/19\/surprising-dad-for-99th-birthday-with-55-ford-he-never-thought-would-run-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,18,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-article","category-links-to-feature-stories","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8792,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791\/revisions\/8792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}